Aspects of the Canadian Evangelical Experience 9780773566484
Canadian evangelicalism was a powerful religious impulse in the nineteenth century and continues to be a powerful force,
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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE: VIEWS FROM OUTSIDE AND INSIDE
1 Canadian Evangelicalism: A View from the United States
2 "Up from Downunder": An Australian View of Canadian Evangelicalism
3 Canadian Evangelicalism: A View from Britain
4 "Who Whom?": Evangelicalism and Canadian Society
PART TWO: EVANGELICAL IMPULSE IN THE METHODIST, PRESBYTERIAN, ANGLICAN, AND UNITED CHURCHES
5 "A March of Victory and Triumph in Praise of 'The Beauty of Holiness'": Laity and the Evangelical Impulse in Canadian Methodism, 1800–1884
6 Condensation and Heart Religion: Canadian Methodists as Evangelicals, 1884–1925
7 "We Will Evangelize with a Whole Gospel or None": Evangelicalism and the United Church of Canada
8 "Crackling Sounds from the Burning Bush": The Evangelical Impulse in Canadian Presbyterianism before 1875
9 From Preaching to Propaganda to Marginalization: The Lost Centre of Twentieth-Century Presbyterianism
10 Evangelical Anglicans and the Atlantic World: Politics, Ideology, and the British North American Connection
11 Redefining Evangelicalism in the Canadian Anglican Church: Wycliffe College and the Evangelical Party, 1867–1995
PART THREE: BAPTISTS, MENNONITES, AND LUTHERANS
12 "The Footprints of Zion's King": Baptists in Canada to 1880
13 "Shelter from the Storm": The Enduring Evangelical Impulse of Baptists in Canada, 1880s to 1990s
14 Living with the Virus: The Enigma of Evangelicalism among Mennonites in Canada
15 Lutheranism and Evangelicalism: Travelling in the Same Circle of Influence
PART FOUR: HOLINESS, CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE, AND PENTECOSTALISM
16 Sailing for the Shore: The Canadian Holiness Tradition
17 Towards a Fourfold Gospel: A.B. Simpson, John Salmon, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada
18 Canadian Pentecostalism and the Evangelical Impulse
PART FIVE: EVANGELICAL NETWORKS, LEADERS, AND REVIVALS
19 The Winnipeg Fundamentalist Network, 1910–1940: The Roots of Transdenominational Evangelicalism in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
20 "The Heavenly Railroad": An Introduction to Crossley-Hunter Revivalism
21 "The World of the Common Man Is Filled with Religious Fervour": The Labouring People of Winnipeg and the Persistence of Revivalism, 1914–1925
22 The Transplanted Mission: The China Inland Mission and Canadian Evangelicalism
23 Evangelical Bible Colleges in Twentieth-Century Canada
PART SIX: WOMEN, SPIRITUALITY, AND THE EVANGELICAL IMPULSE
24 "Canada's Gift to the Sawdust Trail": The Canadian Face of Aimee Semple McPherson
25 Beyond the Congregation: Women and Canadian Evangelicalism Reconsidered
26 The Awakened and the Spirit-Moved: The Religious Experiences of Canadian Evangelicals in the 1990s
Notes
Selected Bibliography
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